“I am a Hindu, and I have pride in that.”

My resolve is to work for the development of the state and the welfare of the people, so I will tackle all challenges. That’s my vision.

I believe Bengal is a part of India.

U.P. is a big state. I don’t have enough leadership experience for such a big state. I requested the party for two experienced associates to help me and work with me.

I was not in the race to become a chief minister. I had never thought about it.

If a person is too ‘satisfied’, then he might become complacent, not work so hard to get ahead.

We must link Azamgarh to art and culture and not with terrorism and crime.

I have always faced challenges in my life.

Law and order is a state responsibility. I can assure you peace will be maintained in Uttar Pradesh.

Under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, terror camps are being destroyed, which is breaking the back of terrorists and Pakistan.

The tradition that I come from has a great influence on Karnataka. Not just politically – it’s also my social and moral responsibility to draw citizens facing bad governance and lawlessness to a leadership that is capable of delivering good governance and development.

Nobody is allowed to break the law.

Most of the people who oppose idol worshipping belong to TMC.

The Election Commission stopped me from campaigning. I accepted it and reached people through my prayer – in silence. People gave their approval. Praying in silence is important, and this spiritual prayer has paid off.

A victory for the BJP means a victory for prosperity and development.

I don’t have a personal agenda. My priority is expeditious implementation of my party’s manifesto, the Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra.

We must raise resources by curbing wasteful expenditure. That’s why I resolved that the hooter culture, where VIPs are provided red-beacon cars at taxpayers’ expense, must end.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

What are friends ? Friends are people that you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret indentities.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.